If you're deploying to physical hardware, most enterprise-y drivers and tools are only provided in RPM format by the vendors. That, and I've had much better lu

If you're deploying to physical hardware, most enterprise-y drivers and tools are only provided in RPM format by the vendors. That, and I've had much better luck with RedHat on bare metal than any other distro. Personally, I like Debian-based distros, but for physical hardware, RedHat is where it's at.